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Late as it was when I retired, I was up betimes in the morning -- as soon, in fact, as the papers were distributed. The _Tribune_ lay on the stoop. Eagerly I seized it; eagerly I read it. From its headlines you may judge what it had to say about this murder:
A STARTLING DISCOVERY IN THE VAN BURNAM MANSION IN GRAMERCY PARK.